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Something of a crime buff himself, Archaeologist Paul Aström made his unusual proposal at a recent colloquium in Athens. The assembled scholars were heatedly debating one of their favorite questions: When did the Indo-European people who became the classical Greeks invade the area and subdue the aboriginal populations? One school argues that it was as early as 5000 B.C.; another sets the date as late...
...purpose," Aström explained, "is to maintain that fingerprints can be used in defining a population or a race. If we can establish sets of fingerprints from prehistoric times down to classical Greece, we shall also be able to detect when new peoples appear and, perhaps, when the Indo-Europeans first arrived in Greece...
Kissinger's first act as Nixon's advisor was to commission an options memorandum on the progress of the war in Vietnam; he began work on the study as early as December 1968. In the months preceding the study, the military state of affairs in Indo-china had been the subject of a raging controversy inside the various departments. The outgoing Presidential advisors and the upper crust of Washington's foreign service were claiming that the NLF had grown significantly weaker since the Tet offensive the previous February, that the Communist military campaign would fold in a matter of months...
...India. West Pakistan troops have been pushing to close the boundaries between the insurgents and possible sources of supply in India. Last week both sides traded charges that their troops had fired upon the other's territory. The tense atmosphere evoked fears among foreign diplomats that another Indo-Pakistan war might break out. Neither country wants to fight, or indeed can afford to; but this was no less true in the period preceding the 17-day war of 1965. "The army's choice might be humiliation in East Pakistan or war with India," says one diplomat...
...battle to gain admittance to the University of Mississippi - has been the legal counsel to Tijerina's Alianza Federal De Pueblos Libres since 1968. Tijerina - perhaps one of the most controversial Chicano leaders - has claimed that 100,000,000 acres of New Mexico's common lands belong to Indo-Hispano people of the Southwest...